Posted on 02/12/06
We are all imposters
The Echo MakerBy Richard PowersFarrar Straus & Giroux,464 pages, $31For the better part of the last century, human consciousness has been one of the novel's major terrains. In recent years, novelists have exhibited a particular interest in the more exotic landscapes of consciousness: neurological disorders. This makes perfect sense. Novelists are always searching for the new. The language of neurology, with its insistence on the primacy of the brain in shaping identity, offers irresistible new ways of thinking about the self.
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